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TITLE: ESTABLISH A PRIMA FACIE
CITY MGI DEPT. ENG
CITY AT1 40 MILE PER HOUR SPEED LIMIT UPON
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
PASEO DEL NORTE FROM CAR COUNTRY DRIVE TO
POINSETTIA LANE
Introduce Ordinance No. NS- 309 to establish a prima facie 40 mile per hour speed I
upon Paseo Del Norte from Car Country Drive to its intersection with Poinsettia Lane 1 ITEM EXPLANATION;
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Paseo Del Norte is classified as a secondary arterial on the City's Circulation Elemer
the General Plan. It has a width that varies from 66 feet to 64 feet curb-to-curb. The r(
is fully improved with curb, gutter, sidewalks, and street lights on both sides except for
There are two travel lanes in each direction and a painted median from Car Country D southerly to Camino del Parque and one travel lane in each direction and a painted me#-
from Camino del Parque to Poinsettia Lane.
At the present time, the segment of Paseo Del Norte from Car Country Drive to Poins
Lane has a prima facie speed limit of 35 miles per hour. However, the results 01
Engineering and Traffic Survey completed by staff do not support a 35 mile per hour p
facie speed limit. The Carlsbad Police Department asked staff to conduct an Engine€
and Traffic Survey to establish the proper speed limit on the roadway.
Sections 22357 and 22358 of the California Vehicle Code authorizes local authoriiie
establish a prima facie speed limit on the basis of the results of an Engineering and TI
Survey. The Engineering and Traffic Survey considers such factors as the numbc
collisions that have occurred on the road segment, roadway features, traffic volu~
pedestrian volumes, adjacent land uses, driveway locations, criiical speed, conditions
may not be readily apparent to the driver, horizontal and vertical alignment, stopping :
east side between Car Country Drive and Palomar Airport Road where no sidewalk exi
distance, and superelevation,
The segment of Paseo Del Norte from Cannon Road to Car Country Drive has diffe
roadway characteristics than the segment between Car Country Drive and Poinsettia L
The segment from Cannon Road to Car Country Drive would remain as a speed zone
a 35 mile per hour prima facie speed limit.
Staff presented results of the Engineering and Traffic Survey to the Traffic S
Commission at their February 6, 1995 meeting, By a 5-0 vote, the Commi:
recommended that the prima facie speed limit on Paseo Del Norte between Car Co
Drive and Poinsettia Lane be established at 40 miles per hour.
:: FISCAL IMPACT
Installation of ten speed limit signs will cost approximately $1,250.
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EXHIBITS: F
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2. Ordinance No. /tS-.joy to establish a prima facie 40 mile per hour speed limit
Paseo Del Norte from Car Country Drive to its intersection with Poinsettia Lane.
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PROPOSED
SPEED ZONE
NOT TO SCALE
PROJECT NAME PASEO DEL NORTE
DRAW BY: SCOTT EVANS, CARLSEAD ENGlNEERlNG DEPT.
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,e e' Exhibit 2
ORDINANCE NO. NS-309
AN ORDINANCE OF ?HE CClY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARLSBAD
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING' TITLE 19, CHAPTER 10.44, OF THE CARLSBAC
MUNICIPALCODEBYTHEAMENDMENTOFSECTION 10.44.ilOTOESTABUSt
A PRIMA FACIE 40 MILE PER HOUR SPEED UMlT UPON THE SEGMENT Of
PASEQ DEL NORTE FROM CAR COUNTRY DRIVE TO ITS INTERSECTION WITt
POINSETTIA LANE
The City Council of the City of Carlsbad, California, hereby ordains as follows:
SECTION I: That Title IO, Chapter' 10.44, of the Carlsbad Municipal Code is a
by the revision of Section 10.44.1 10 to read as follows:
"1 0.44.1 10 'Paseo Del Norte:
(a) Upon Paseo Del Norte from Cannon Road to its intersection with Car Count
the prima facie speed limit shall be thirty-five miles per hour.
(b) Upon Paseo Dei None from Car Country Drive to its intersection with Poinseti
the prima facie speed limit shall be forty miles per hour.'
EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall be effective thirty (30) days after its adop
the City Clerk, City of Carlsbad, shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance and causc
published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Carlsba
fifteen (15) days after Rs adoption.
INTRODUCED AND FIRST READ at a regular meeting of said City Council hell
- 6th day of . JUNE , 1995, and thereafter,
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Carlsbad City
held on the ' day of , 1995 by the following vote, to wit:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
CLAUDE A. LEWIS, Mayor
ATTEST: 1
ALETHA L. RAUTENKRANZ, City Clerk (SEAL)